Definition of Duck down

1. Noun. Down of the duck.

Group relationships: Duck
Generic synonyms: Down, Down Feather
Specialized synonyms: Eiderdown

Lexicographical Neighbors of Duck Down

duck-billed dinosaur
duck-billed dinosaurs
duck-billed platypus
duck-billed platypuses
duck-drownder
duck-egg blue
duck-egg blues
duck-footed
duck and cover
duck arsed
duck dive
duck dived
duck dives
duck diving
duck down (current term)
duck embryo origin vaccine
duck hepatitis virus
duck hunter
duck hunting
duck influenza virus
duck mole
duck moles
duck out
duck pate
duck plague
duck plague virus
duck sauce
duck shot
duck soup

Literary usage of Duck down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... when all at once a sudden shift in the sail obliged him to duck down into the bottom of the boat, and, at the same time, occasioned the loss of his hat, ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"What he done, when he felt the hot whiz of the fryin'-pan, was to duck down close and pull his head in like an old turtle. It come up again, though, ..."

3. The American Sportsman by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1906)
"... the water for an instant, and duck down again before a snap-shot could get a range on them even with a light partridge-gun, let alone a heavy duck-gun. ..."

4. A Danish-English Dictionary by James Stephen Ferrall, Þorleifur Guðmundsson Repp (1845)
"... en. hewing etc. va to beat —, drive down. , V. ». to drip —, drop down. — en, dripping. vi to dive —, duck down. j v. a- to dip, immerse. ..."

5. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"Guido, at such a general duck-down, P the breathing-space, — of wife to convent here. Priest to his relegation, and himself To Arezzo, — had resigned his ..."

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